Originally Posted by
bozobigtop
I received my first supervisor experience with Evergreen in freight operations in which Evergreen operated some of UPS own aircraft in the Western US. I believe it was Orion Air in which operated UPS own aircraft in the Eastern US. I will never understand why UPS decided to operate the equipment themselves because they have never been happy being the operator.
I don't fly for UPS, but I know several guys that flew for their jet operators before they took it over.
The issue is control. UPS wants absolute control and the only way to get it is to do it themselves.
As I recall there was an FAA issue too in that UPS was in effect in "operational control" of their contractors and the Feds said if you want this level of controll you have to bring the operations in house.